Amour (movie)

When Lisa D'Amour wrote "Detroit" — a play that premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2010 and went on to New York and London's National Theatre and became a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize — it seemed like she knew the Motor City uncommonly well.

"Detroit" understood the catastrophic collapse in the Michigan real estate market and how that resulted in the scrambling of who could afford what house, and thus who started living next door to whom. But over lunch the other day, D'Amour confessed that she really didn't know, and maybe wasn't even writing about, southeast Michigan.

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